Toad’s Oil
The Yazawa family consists of the father Takuro (Koji Yakusho) – who is always busy day trading, charming wife Erumi (Satomi Kobayashi), and teenage son Tetsuya (Eita) – who dreams of becoming an astronaut. The family is also joined by Saburo Akiba (Junichi Sawayashiki), a good-natured teen recently released from a juvenile corrections facility. Then one day Tetsuya falls into a coma from a car accident. A chain of events is set to occur set-off by the father taking a phone call from an unsuspecting girl named Hikari. The father pretends to be his son Tokuya…
Genre: Drama
Director: Koji Yakusho
Actors: Eita, Fumi Nikaidô, Junichi Sawayashiki, Kaoru Yachigusa, Kôji Yakusho, Ryô Iwamatsu, Satomi Kobayashi, Takanori Hamachika, Tokio Emoto, Tôru Masuoka, Yûya Takagawa